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Is San Francisco about to cut out circumcision? A group of "intactivists" hope so; they’ve submitted 12,265 signatures to the city’s Department of Elections in a bid to get a ban on the practice placed on the ballot this November, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. If even 7,168 of the signatures check out, voters will be able to weigh in on the ban, which would apply to everyone under age 18.

Proponents gathered outside city hall yesterday to hand in the signatures, wearing pins reading, “May the foreskin be with you.” Some said they’d been circumcised as infants, and weren’t happy about it. “I discovered my sexuality and body had been impacted by this—for no reason and without my consent,” said one man who’d collected 300 signatures. “To cut any body part off somebody who can’t consent, to me is just madness.”

"To cut off any body part of somebody who can't consent, to me is just madness"? We'll to innoculate against imaginary diseases you can't even see without consent is just madness! To sprinkle holy water on the heads of those who cannot consent is just madness! To draw blood and diagnose sicknesses without HIPAA consent or anyother consent is just madness! To abort the fetus in or outside the womb without consent is just madness! BTW, this is a Judeo Christian tradition that goes back well over 4k years. Doesn't make it right based on that but thought there was a seperation of church and state, state is going to terminate a tradition which is mandated by the founder of the faith which founded the state? God bless the land of fruits and nuts. Cali is f'ing retarded. Wonder why that place is falling apart?

Ucantusethatname

Apr 27, 2011 9:04 PM CDT

Only in San Francisco.

Rational.-Anarchist

Apr 27, 2011 6:29 PM CDT

About the hygeine for boys. Can we all say BATH,and SOAP? I have used it all my circumcised life. It works. I have also had wonderful sexual enjoyment. I do agree that it shouldn't be done to infants who can't speak for themselves. I can't miss what I've never had, so I've nothing to compare to. On second thought, ignore this comment. I tried to delete it, but it didn't work.